THE SOLAR

SYSTEM
SOLAR SYSTEM
•The gravitationally bound system
comprising the Sun and the objects
that orbit it, either directly or
indirectly.
COMPOSITION OF THE
SOLAR SYSTEM
STAR
•a fixed luminous point in the night sky
which is a large, remote incandescent
body like the sun.
NATURAL SATELLITES
- It is basically solid body. Only a few have
atmospheres. Planetary moons are formed from
discs of gas and dust revolving around the
planets in the early solar system.
ASTEROIDS
• Basically a chunk of rock that orbits the sun. Its
size can be from a few feet up to several miles in
diameter
COMET
•A cosmic snowball of rocks, dusts, frozen
gases that grow tails as it comes nearer to the
sun.
METEORS AND METEORITES

•Small chunks of debris and rocks in

space.
•It leaves a bright trail in the sky which
we usually see.
PLANETS
•Any large heavenly body that revolves
around the Sun in the solar system
PLANETS
•MERCURY NEPTUNE
•VENUS EARTH
•MARS JUPITER
•SATURN URANUS
THEORIES ON THE
ORIGIN OF THE
SOLAR SYSTEM
Rene Descartes
Devised a Theory of Vortices
which postulated That the
space was entirely filled with
Matter In various states,
whirling about the sun like
a vortex.
Immanuel
Suggested that contraction in the
Middle of the rotating cloud
appeared and the rest
Flattened out like a disk,
using Newton’s idea of gravity
Pierre Simon Laplace
Proposed a similar model of a solar
System. According to his model which
is now known as Laplace’s Nebular
Theory, a slowly rotating Nebula
collapsed under gravity forming an
oblate Spheroid due to increase in
its spin rate
NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS
•  This hypothesis posits that, 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar
System was formed by the gravitational collapse of a
giant molecular cloud spanning several light-years.
Many stars, including the Sun, were formed within this
collapsing cloud. The gas that formed the Solar System was
slightly more massive than the Sun itself. Most of the mass
concentrated in the center, forming the Sun, and the rest of
the mass flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which
all of the current planets, moons, asteroids, and
other celestial bodies in the Solar System formed